The Randwick City Plan A 20 year Plan Sydney Harbour Circular Quay Wynyard St James Kings Cross The SYDNEY CENTRE Edgecliff Central Randwick Bondi Junction Redfern City Plan Bondi Beach Macdonaldtown Moore Park Newtown Erskineville Centennial Park Av themes oca Green Square Dr St Ar oss St Peters den Messages 4 KensingtonCr n Alison Rd St Introduction 6 Randwick Clovelly Bay About Randwick City 7 UNSW Coogee Coogee Souther Ba Gordons Bay Randwick y Rd Our local area 8 Mascot Kingsford Hospitals The Spot Coogee Beach About the plan 9 complex Bunner Anzac Measuring success 10 Our City and Pd Our city and e Engaging with the community 11 Surrounds ong Demographics 16 surrounds Rd Maroubra Lurline Bay State and regional influences 18 Regional context Junction Guiding principals 19 Eastgardens Mar Randwick City oubra Rd SYDNEY Themes and outcomes 20 Av Centennial Park, Heffron Park AIRPORT Fitzgerald and Nationa l Park Responsible management 20 Heffron Rd Maroubra Beach Port and port-related land Park Beauchamp A sense of community 28 Commercial centre Places for people 40 A prospering City 56 Adjacent recreation facilities Foreshor Matraville e Rd Botany Moving around 62 Adjacent major centres Rd Malabar Looking after our environment 70 Long Bay 0 300m 1.2km Our finances – a closer look 78 PORT Our City – a closer look 80 BOTANY Yarra Bay Little Bay La Perouse Frenchmans Bay Congwong Botany Bay Bay National Park Botany Bay Cape Banks 3 © Randwick City Council Mayor’s message General Manager’s message Our City Plan, first developed The Randwick City Plan in 2006 in close consultation provides the long-term with the community, is a 20- vision and directions for year guide for planning for a practical approach to our City’s future. planning for the future of our City. This updated Plan reflects the achievements we have made according to the directions outlined in the Plan, and demonstrates that we are on track and delivering It outlines how Council will continue to work with our on the priorities we identified with the community. community to ensure our City’s bright future – for our City, our people, our environment, and our economy. By aligning our four-year Delivery Program with the updated City Plan this clearly outlines how our projects This revised Plan, reflects the opinions and changing and activities fit within the broader vision for the future needs of our community, and provides an update on of our City. our ambition to achieve our objectives. I would like to thank all members of our community for The strong partnerships and networks within our their input and interest, as well as my fellow Randwick community allow us to continue to build on and work City councillors for their continued enthusiasm and towards the needs and aspirations of our community. willingness to work together and make Randwick City Ray Brownlee an even more wonderful place to live and work. General Manager Councillor Tony Bowen Mayor 4 RANDWICK CITY COUNCIL CITY PLAN 2013 5 Introduction About Randwick City Our history At the time of the first encounters with Europeans, Aboriginal people of different clan groups were living in the area now included in the Botany Bay National Park. The Randwick area is also important in the history of Australia’s European settlement. Captain James Cook landed at Botany Bay in April 1770. When the First Fleet arrived in 1788, Captain Arthur Phillip landed at Yarra Bay before moving on to Port Jackson. One week later an expedition led by the French explorer, La Perouse, arrived in Botany Bay and set up camp for six weeks in the area which now bears his name. White settlement was sparse in the area for many years, owing Aboriginal people have to the poor soil and swamps. However, in 1838 Coogee was lived on the land on which pronounced a township, and in 1855 the new village of Long Randwick City stands for Bay was established. In 1859 the Randwick Municipality was tens of thousands of years. proclaimed and the first council elections held making it one of the oldest local government areas in Australia. Randwick municipality grew rapidly after the tramline was built in 1880. Randwick hosted two nationally significant celebrations: the Centenary of Australia in 1888, and Federation of Australia in 1901, both of which were held in Centennial Park. After each of the two World Wars Randwick municipality continued to grow rapidly until the 1970s, with population growth only returning to the levels of that time by the year 2000. Randwick was proclaimed a city in 1990 and is a highly desirable place to live, work, visit and study. Randwick City is a diverse community made up of many cultural groups and a significant The Randwick City Plan celebrates our rich history and bright future. Our rich history has Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population. More than one third of our residents formed who we are, and by establishing a vision for the future and working together, we were born overseas, coming from more than 100 countries and speaking more than 60 will create a bright future. different languages. Our City is subject to many local, regional, national and international influences. The Randwick City Plan aims to direct these influences and manage This plan reflects our community’s long term aspirations and needs, and outlines the clear environmental, social and economic change across our City during the next 20 years directions we will take to shape our city’s future. The success of this plan lies with the for the benefit of our community. strong working partnerships Council creates with our community and key organisations. 6 RANDWICK CITY COUNCIL CITY PLAN 2013 7 Our local area About the plan Randwick City has an area of 37.4 The Randwick City Plan is a 20-year square kilometres (3742 hectares), strategic plan reflecting our community’s and contains the suburbs of Chifley, vision and long term goals for the health Clovelly, Coogee, Kensington, and well being of our people, our economy Kingsford, La Perouse, Little Bay, and the natural and built environment. Malabar, Maroubra, Matraville, South Coogee, Phillip Bay and The plan is the community’s plan. It is prepared by Council Randwick. through engagement and collaboration with residents and ratepayers, local community groups and businesses, other levels of government and major institutions within the City. Our City has extensive parkland and open space areas including Centennial Park, Malabar Headland, The plan is an update of The Randwick City Plan that was first Heffron Park and Botany Bay National Park that adopted by Council in 2006 and revised in 2009. It is based provide opportunities for recreation, relaxation and on the extensive research, input from the ongoing and well community interaction. These large areas of open thought out community engagement processes that are in space provide a habitat for more than 500 species place and reflects the changes in community expectations as of indigenous plants and 250 species of terrestrial captured through biennial community surveys. It is also based native vertebrate animals, including several remnant Randwick City is located in on Council’s knowledge of our community and the local area. communities of threatened flora and fauna species. the eastern suburbs of the It reflects NSW 2021, the ten year State Plan, the Metropolitan Sydney metropolitan area. Plan for Sydney 2036 and other key relevant State and regional Randwick City has a strong artistic and cultural, To the north it is bounded by plans and integrates with key Council documents such as the educational, health and recreation focus with Centennial Park, its eastern new Local Environmental Plan (LEP). considerable education and medical facilities, boundary is the Pacific including schools, University of NSW, Randwick Ocean, and its southern The Randwick City Plan is an overarching document The Delivery Program hospitals complex, National Institute of Dramatic boundary is Botany Bay. underpinned by a suite of medium term plans and the and Operational Plan are Arts (NIDA) and Randwick TAFE College. The western boundary is Resourcing Strategy that explains how we will meet our supported by integrated generally defined by the obligations now and in the future, taking into account our planning software that Randwick City is also host to regionally significant line of open space largely workforce, our finances and our assets. The Resourcing includes a clear assignment recreational facilities, including Randwick occupied by golf courses Strategy enables us to deliver our services to the community of responsibility, timeframe Racecourse, a number of golf courses, coastal inlets that were developed over in a cohesive and sustainable way and includes: of projects and key and surf beaches. These facilities and our proximity low lying land that is known • a long term financial plan performance indicators for to the Sydney Central Business District(CBD), historically as the Lachlan • an asset management strategy and services. The plans are used Sydney Airport and Port Botany strengthen Swamp and Botany wetlands • a workforce plan to ensure accountability Randwick’s relationship with Sydney’s economy. in the Council’s reporting Our four year Delivery Program is formed within The Randwick mechanisms. Randwick’s 29 kilometres City Plan and outlines our directions within each theme. The We measure the of coastline is one of its annual Operational Plan details what we will do to achieve the effectiveness of each great natural assets. goals outlined in the Randwick City Plan. We produce publicly program through The coastal environment available quarterly reports on our progress. performance indicators, such strongly influences the area’s The outcomes and directions in The Randwick City Plan direct as service level agreements, character and functions, with any specific strategies we develop or review, such as our crime to ensure full accountability uses ranging from tourist prevention and cultural plans.